Loving my new 6-core CPU http://hothardware.com/image_popup.aspx?image=big_die-shot.jpg&articleid=1494&t=a
Was a forced rebuild & i just though f* it!
Was a forced rebuild & i just though f* it!
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Yeah it is....but from the look of that map it's only another year before the 8-core
Got one of them myself in june last year.
Nice quiet system shoved into a lian li full tower, massive HSF to keep it quiet, a crapload of silent huge fans, 8GB RAM. a SSD for c: and a few samsung 1TB HDDs for storage.
I haven't thought about it much at all in the past few months, I even forget what PSU I have (that's pretty bad for a former PC geek to forget)
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at you recent post, hex cores are so old already, they were a few months old when I bought mine over a year ago.
But doesn't matter too much, software has to be developed to utilize all the extra cores, so any further advancements like 8 cores etc won't be any more useful than hex cores until developers catch up later, so never really much point trying to keep up on the bleeding edge.
I went hex because I wanted to do it and forget about it for a few years, and that plan worked as I pretty much forget everything about PC hardware theses days, don;t need to know it as I bought high up enough for it to be useful for a while..
Nice quiet system shoved into a lian li full tower, massive HSF to keep it quiet, a crapload of silent huge fans, 8GB RAM. a SSD for c: and a few samsung 1TB HDDs for storage.
I haven't thought about it much at all in the past few months, I even forget what PSU I have (that's pretty bad for a former PC geek to forget)
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at you recent post, hex cores are so old already, they were a few months old when I bought mine over a year ago.But doesn't matter too much, software has to be developed to utilize all the extra cores, so any further advancements like 8 cores etc won't be any more useful than hex cores until developers catch up later, so never really much point trying to keep up on the bleeding edge.
I went hex because I wanted to do it and forget about it for a few years, and that plan worked as I pretty much forget everything about PC hardware theses days, don;t need to know it as I bought high up enough for it to be useful for a while..
Pablo - have you got the AMD hex or an Intel version?
Mines AMD 3.2 G (6 x 1090T's)
Mines AMD 3.2 G (6 x 1090T's)
Haha *snap* am also running 8 gigs ram
but yeah, dont worry too much about cooling - the amd's are designed to run at higher temps
am also running 8 gigs ram but yeah, dont worry too much about cooling - the amd's are designed to run at higher temps
But you should have known that I had a 1090T if you're a nerd. Intels i7s come in 3 channel, so 6GB or 12GB, while AMD is two channel, 4GB or 8GBHaha *snap*
but yeah, dont worry too much about cooling - the amd's are designed to run at higher temps
Also intel multicores over a year ago? I'm not made of money! Intels hex core in 2010 was about $1000!
I wasn't worried about cooling, the 1090T throttles down in speed, and it works quite well with my cores running on idle at 800MHz.
I just want silence no matter if they are working hard or not. Can't hear my PC at all. Twin 140mm fans running at 5V, single 120mm exhaust, aftermarket 80mm GPU fan, massive tower heatsink with 120mm fan running at 5V, quiet corsair PSU (I remembered), SSD for c drive, and samsung HDDs are the quietest too.
Look at me, scaring everyone away with geek speak.
Have been out of the game a bit myself but only ever build AMD's for me, fam & customers....because they run better in the heat (for anything thats outside of an air-con office)Have been called out for fixes - Customer says comp is running a bit strange. Turn up and cpu fan has stopped...in a hot brick unit in middle of brisbane summer. Says its been running a bit odd for 6 weeks. I replace the fan & good as new LOL. Like to see an Intel survive that
EEEKKK
Its funny how the hardware market rolls - it'll be $200 by next yearThats what this thread is about
Us nerds have to loiter about in dark forum corners & speak our secret language 
By the way my expertise was/is the black art of Data Recovery
Knew you'd be here
& know you can read those maps - thats the actual pic from AMD website of mine & Pablo's CPUSo fill me in on what you're asking again
lolKnew you'd be here
So fill me in on what you're asking again
See that massive shiny part on the right that looks like a solar panel? that's a level 3 cache memory. something that apparently used to be in industrial CPUs, but now in mainstream standard CPUs.
The miniature parts attached outside of the cores that again look like a solar panel, is a level 2 cache memory. if you look closer, you can see the level 1 cache memory inside the cores. L1 is part of the structure and because of that the fastest. L2 is the secondary cache and the second fastest. L3 is actually outside of the die, and it used for excess data.
Just like how HDs are too slow for the CPU to extract data from them in real time, and we use flash memory (RAM)... the flash memory isn't fast enough for the CPU to store real-time data on it.
There's 6MB shared between all 6 cores. Not bad for $170 hey?
So its memory speed -fastest +L1, +L2, +L3 then RAM -1, HDD -2
L3 sure looks like a solar panel array
Would it have anything to do with front side busses?
L3 sure looks like a solar panel array
Would it have anything to do with front side busses?
Well that's pretty useless. did they move up to optic intersections? if not, it seems as if they wasted A LOT of space for nothing.
That's actually the communication between the chip and the mobo. I'm talking about on-chip micro-structure.
Utilizing 6 cores? I'm a little outdated, but I do know since Vista there's full compatibility with multi-processing. it's not going to multiply your performance by 6, unless you're processing meaningless strings of data for fun. it's more like a 4L V6 vs. a 4L single cylinder. same size and potential output, but the division lets you wire it a little different and work on several different strings at the same time. it's smart and you are using it.
By applications I meant one software program. the OS can use it, and it helps multitasking running different programs. But for example when I bought mine, everyone that wanted a game to run the best, bought a CPU with less cores but faster clock speed, because the extra cores wouldn't run their game any better.
But for general destop use, yes the OS can use it and multitasking running many applications etc, is better. It's works on the OS level, but won't help a single program run much better than a quad core if that program isn't designed to run on a hex core (or a quad core over a dual core etc etc).
I'm no enginneer though, the only write up that goes into detail that I remember (I bought this CPU edit: June 2010last June) was from anandtech http://www.anandtech.com/show/3674/amds-sixcore-phenom-ii-x6-1090t-1055t-reviewed
But for general destop use, yes the OS can use it and multitasking running many applications etc, is better. It's works on the OS level, but won't help a single program run much better than a quad core if that program isn't designed to run on a hex core (or a quad core over a dual core etc etc).
I'm no enginneer though, the only write up that goes into detail that I remember (I bought this CPU edit: June 2010